Narrative of the Expedition to China: From the Commencement of the War to the Present Period ...H. Colburn, 1843 - China |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiral allowed amongst anchor anchorage Anunghoy appeared armed arrived attack barbarians batteries Bengal volunteers boats Bocca Tigris British brought bullocks Canton Canton River Captain Anstruther Captain Elliot Captain Eyres capture celestial China Chinese Chuenpee Chusan command commissioner compradore crew directed dispatched dollars edict Elepoo emperor English factories feet fire flag force foreigners formed forts Gordon Bremer guns harbour hills Hong Kong Hong merchants houses Howqua hundred Hyacinth imperial inhabitants INTRODUCTION island joss-house junks Keshen land Lieutenant Macao Madagascar majesty's mandarins ment miles Modeste morning natives Nemesis Ning-po officers opium orders party passed Pei-Ho Pekin pinnace Portuguese present proceed proceeded Pylades quantity returned river round sail seen sent ships shore shot side Sincapore soldiers soon spot squadron steamer supplies sycee Tang temple temple of Confucius tide Ting-hai tion trade troops vessels Volage walls Whampoa whole
Popular passages
Page 417 - LOCHIEL. False Wizard, avaunt ! I have marshalled my clan, Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one ! They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
Page 12 - It will be found, on examination, that the smokers of opium are idle, lazy vagrants, having no useful purpose before them, and are unworthy of regard, or even of contempt.
Page 341 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 156 - Scattering dun night and horror thro' the skies. The swift volution, and th' enormous train, Let sages vers'd in nature's lore explain. The horrid apparition still draws nigh, And white with foam the whirling surges fly.
Page 291 - Hindus the one, and one the Ganges named, Darkly of old through distant nations famed : One eastward curving holds his crooked way, One to the west gives his swol'n tide to stray : Declining southward many a land they lave, And widely swelling roll the sea-like wave, Till the twin offspring of the mountain sire Both in the Indian deep engulphed expire.
Page 361 - ... 2. China to pay twenty-one millions of dollars in the course of the present and three succeeding years. 3. The ports of Canton, Amoy, Foo-choo-foo, Ning-Po, and Shang-Hae, to be thrown open to British merchants, consular officers to be appointed to reside at them, and regular and just tariffs of import and export (as well as inland transit) duties to be established and published.
Page 390 - Kong, shall be issued under the hand and seal of the person filling the office of chief superintendent of the trade of British subjects in China for the time being. And I do further declare and proclaim, that, pending her majesty's further pleasure, all British subjects and foreigners residing in, or resorting...
Page 389 - Kong having been ceded to the British Crown under the Seal of the Imperial Minister and High Commissioner Keshen, it has become necessary to provide for the government thereof, pending Her Majesty's further pleasure. By virtue of the authority, therefore, in me vested, all Her Majesty's rights, royalties...
Page 402 - Already has a flying dispatch been sent to the different provinces of Hoonan, Szechuen, and Kweichow, that four thousand soldiers be immediately got ready, and sent with all haste to Canton, there to await orders; cause, therefore, that Keshen, in concert with Lin Tsihseu and Tang Tingching, take the necessary steps for settling this business. If the rebellious foreigners dare to approach our inner shores, let them be immediately exterminated.
Page 14 - ... the duties of their rank and attend to the public good; the others, to cultivate their talents and become fit for public usefulness. None of these, therefore, must be permitted to contract a practice so bad, or to walk in a path which will lead only to the utter waste of their time and destruction of their property. If, however, the laws enacted against the practice be made too severe, the result will be mutual connivance. It becomes my duty, then, to request that it be enacted, that any officer,...